When a work manager has been configured, if it references a logical
work manager it must be bound to a physical work manager using an assembly
tool. Then resources can be created and bound to a physical timer.
Before you begin
Your administrator needs to configure at least one timer manager using
the administrative console.
About this task
If your application references one or more logical timer managers,
the logical timer managers must be bound to one or more physical timer managers
using an assembly
tool, such as the Application Server Toolkit (AST) or Rational Web Developer.
Procedure
- Declare a resource reference for each timer manager (required action
by the application developer). This forms an EAR file. (For more information
on resource references, see the topic References.)
- Bind each resource reference to a physical timer manager, using
an assembly tool,
such as the Application Server Toolkit (AST) or Rational Web Developer.
- Add a resource reference with the type commonj.timers.TimerManager
to the application deployment descriptor. The application then
can look up this timer manager using its resource reference name in java:comp.
The assembly tool or Rational Application Developer then can specify which
resource references are bound to a physical timer manager.
Note: The
previous steps outline the same process used for data sources.